Regardless of the community's eventual solution, I think the most important part of this event was the lack of engagement of Caliparks and Stamen with the community. Is there a similar process for institutional (business, government, non-profit) editing of data as there is for imports? There should be. I think institutional engagement with OSM can bring many benefits, but has similar dangers as imports.
James On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 13:50 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/24/2016 11:26 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: > > > > They tagged them as "social_path", according to their blog entry > > [1] > Thank you for the link. This is what I feared. > > highway=social_path is certainly unacceptable - a self-made tag that > essentially deletes the data for all other consumers. > > There would have been numerous other options that would have allowed > them to single out the tracks they want - for example, tagging the > official ones with an "operator" tag, or putting them into suitable > relations or so. Had any of the players involved taken the time to > ask > on this list, I'm sure these options would have been pointed out to > them. > > As it stands, removing a proper, established highway tag and > replacing > it with something that nobody knows is just a little bit better than > removing the way altogether. > > To make matters worse, it seems that the issue has been pointed out > almost half a year ago, and has not led to the issue being fixed: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34599982 > > It is obvious to me that all occurrences of highway=social_path need > to > be replaced with whatever they were before. I'd normally say let's > give > them some time to come up with a better idea but seeing that the > problem > has been highlighted to them pretty much at the time they made the > edits > 5 months ago, and they haven't come up with a better idea, I'd say > the > time is up now. > > Bye > Frederik > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
